Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Thu, 07/04/2011 - 09:05 US publishers have dismissed Borders' recovery plan, which includes revamped stores and increased online sales, as unrealistic and are increasingly gloomy about its future. The New York Times reports Borders senior... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Wed, 06/04/2011 - 09:13 Gardners will look to create a mobile phone app for Hive after its official launch. The book wholesaler has been working with e-consultancy firm Tangent One to build the Hive website, which will sell books directly to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Advantage Business Media, a b-to-b publisher targeting the communications, manufacturing, design and science markets, has purchased the assets of Continuity Insights from Gardner Publications. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 06/04/2011 - 07:54 Transworld has acquired two titles from TV presenter and adventurer Ben Fogle, with the first to give an account of his "compulsive pursuit of adventure". Publishing director, sport and entertainment, Doug Young bought UK... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Monday, Bonnier officially launched a spin-off company called Moving Media+ which will be offering the Mag+ app creation tool to any publisher that wants to use itas a free download. The app reader and continued services, however, come at a cost. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 06/04/2011 - 09:16 Independent publisher Continuum has launched an ebook store, featuring a selection of titles across Continuum's humanities, education and religion lists. Around 2,000 titles will be available for download in Adobe PDF and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Wed, 06/04/2011 - 14:58 Penguin group chief executive John Makinson took home £1.5m in pay in 2010, in a year when Penguin's sales grew 21% to £1.1bn and adjusted operating profit grew 19% to £106m. Makinson's pay rose by £150,000 thanks to a rise in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill and Katie Allen Publication Date: Wed, 06/04/2011 - 14:50 A Freddie Mercury biography and a six-figure deal signed following a trans-Atlantic auction are among the pre London Book Fair deals agented by Mulcahy Conway Associates. The agency said it anticipated a busy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Wed, 06/04/2011 - 14:24 Quercus has won a "keenly contested" auction to a debut literary crime novel set in Hull and East Yorkshire. Editor Jon Riley acquired UK and Commonwealth rights excluding Canada to The Dark Winter from Oliver Munson at Blake Friedmann in a two-book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Administrators have announced the closure of 16 more Borders bookshops, leading to a loss of more than 500 jobs. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
B-to-b publishers have long relied on directories (or buyers guides, depending on company terminology) to produce revenue and establish themselves as a valuable resource to their readers. Now, b-to-b publishers are finding new ways to add value to their directories, even as print is challenged... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 06/04/2011 - 14:45 Tindal Street Press has bought UK and Commonwealth rights to a book about an obsessive ex-professional footballer's relationship with Manchester United player Ryan Giggs. Senior editor bought UK and Commonwealth rights to Bring... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Wed, 06/04/2011 - 09:37 Children's poetry is among the biggest losers in the children's literature sector following the recent cuts in Arts Council funding, it has emerged. As well as the Poetry Book Society (PBS) which has seen 100% of its funding... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 05/04/2011 - 09:38 Profits surged to £7.5m at Quercus last year, as the independent announced HarperCollins publishing director Susan Watt is to set up a new imprint called Heron Books. In its financial results for the year to 31st December,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 05/04/2011 - 08:27 The Poetry Book Society (PBS) is planning to "challenge" the claim by Arts Council England (ACE) that its reach was not as wide as other portfolio funding applicants'. In a letter published in today's Times, George... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 05/04/2011 - 08:28 The Big Green Bookshop is celebrating after achieving 96% of its path to financial safety. The indie retailer based in Wood Green, north London, sent out a mass appeal to its customers a month ago asking them to buy one extra... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Tue, 05/04/2011 - 08:20 Little, Brown imprint Atom has acquired a mystery series by debut author Christi Daugherty described as "The Secret History for the YA audience". Editorial director Samantha Smith bought UK and Commonwealth rights in the "major" two-book deal from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Tue, 05/04/2011 - 15:12 Russian investor Alexander Mamut and Tim Waterstone have reportedly 15 days to put a bid together to buy Waterstones. On a blog on Sky News, reporter Mark Kleinman said: "Nomura, which is advising Waterstone's troubled... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Tue, 05/04/2011 - 15:10 Pan Macmillan has signed a six-book deal with London self-help bookshop The School of Life. Editorial directors Liz Gough and Cindy Chan bought world rights in the series directly from The School of Life. The intelligent,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Tue, 05/04/2011 - 08:19 Howard Jacobson's Man Booker-winning novel The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury) has been shortlisted for the £4,000 2011 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize. The six-strong list spans Baghdad to Galilee to Vienna with Edmund de Waal's Costa category winner The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]